FRISCO, Texas -- On Thursday, the Cowboys waived defensive tackle Perrion Winfrey.
Winfrey, 25, appeared in one game for Dallas in the 2025 season against the Chargers in Week 16. He recorded 34 defensive snaps and two total tackles. Winfrey was on injured reserve for a majority of the season with a back injury he suffered in the preseason.
The Cowboys added Winfrey just before the beginning of their 2025 training camp in Oxnard, California after a year with the UFL's Birmingham Stallions, where he was named to the 2025 All-UFL team.
Winfrey has played in 15 total NFL games since being drafted in the fourth-round by the Cleveland Browns in 2022, and now has an opportunity to seek the fourth NFL team he could play for in 2026.
The Cowboys have had a history of signing players from the UFL ranks, and the Stallions specifically, as WR KaVontae Turpin and kicker Brandon Aubrey were also Birmingham products.
The defensive tackle position is one that the Cowboys feel they have good depth in. Quinnen Williams, Kenny Clark, Osa Odighizuwa and Solomon Thomas were a strong quartet for Dallas in 2025, and will likely look to do the same again in 2026.
In doing so, the Cowboys know that they'll need to free up some cap space from the group. At present, the trio of Williams, Clark and Odighizuwa is set to cost Dallas around $64 million against the cap in 2026.
At the NFL Combine in Indianapolis, Cowboys owner/GM Jerry Jones said that would not be the case for long.
"We'll make the adjustments that you'd think we'd make and spread that out so we can get the players that we want to get, or that we'd like to get," Jones said. "So yeah, it won't end up that much counting this year as counting tonight."
